posted on May 9, 2005 10:48:05 AM
arrghh! I am going to need a break-free from Vendio pill if this keeps up!! I dont suppose crowfarm has one?
Fenix, she (my aunt) would tell such funny stories all the time!! And then not so funny ones...
I think all the high end industries like film, music, etc are very much like you mentioned. Often read of musicians etc saying how they felt so totally dumped by their 'employers' when the next new thing didnt roll in the dough.
Myself, the only thing close to I came, it was temping in the garment district. It was an eye-opener for me. I couldnt believe how self-absorbed and rude these people were to each other! (And this rude for NY isnt stretching it.) They took to me like, who is this strange little thing? Shes nice...polite????!!!What is this???? I was like what kind of office environment is this? Was on the phone to the agency in three days - reassign me to wall street or the daily news or something here!
posted on May 9, 2005 11:09:04 AM
Musicians are right!! i cannot tell you how many truly talented bands that could have been the next big thing were passed over or put on the back burner in favor of someone that sounded surprising similar to the current big thing. It's shocking just how little actual talent has to do with success. There's a great song written by Scatterbrain that expressed their frustration with the situation. It's called Tastes Just Like Chicken. Here's the relevent part..
Blah, blah, blah, blah....
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah...
Standardized, homogenized, sterilized
I've heard that song before
Deoderized, commericialized, televised
I've heard that song before
Recycle it, trash for cash
Gonna be a hit gonna be a smash
Mmmm, tastes just like chicken...
In my car I drive along, the radio it plays a song.
To the song I sing along, I sing along to the song.
Why do I sing, sing along?
Do I sing cause it's a good song?
Or because I'm brainwashed
'Cause I hear it every five minutes!
I sing along to dog food commercials too,
I don't see the difference, do you?
A dog can lip-sync too
The Mainstream, can you say bore?
Respectable, acceptable, I've heard that song before.
Standardized, homogenized, sterilized
I've heard that song before
Deoderized, commercialized, televised
I've heard that song before
Before, Before, I've heard that song before
Standardized, homogenized, sterilized
I've heard that song before
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on May 9, 2005 11:35:13 AM
fenix! Great song! I will have to catch a listen to it.
I'll never forget one time in the car we were listening to david byrne and my husband suddendly turns to me and says: "got some peanut butter"...what kind of sh* these people writing about and being successful? Then we just burst out laughing so hard -- and he started making up some other lines to go to the song!
I'm in big az* trouble with the boss (me!) now.
See myself pulling an OJ Simpson to the po at five minutes to five. oh shii11.,
posted on May 9, 2005 12:06:57 PM
Fenix.. I'm intrigued..you must have some great stories to tell! My taste in an actor is Johnny Depp...now there's a hottie!
posted on May 9, 2005 12:32:43 PM
"classic - hang her in the garage.... lol is that one of the kinky ways you enjoy sex? [DON'T answer....just joking because with you it often appears ALL inter-related.]"
Well...when she tells me she has a headache, THIS time I'll believe her<snicker>
Actually she hasnt retired because she doesnt have enough time yet in the school system.I wish she could,I like to move the hell out of New York.
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
posted on May 9, 2005 12:35:18 PM
Blah, blah, blah, blah....
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah...
Standardized, homogenized, sterilized
I've heard that song before
Deoderized, commericialized, televised
I've heard that song before
Recycle it, trash for cash
Gonna be a hit gonna be a smash
Mmmm, tastes just like chicken...
In my car I drive along, the radio it plays a song.
"To the song I sing along, I sing along to the song.
Why do I sing, sing along?
Do I sing cause it's a good song?
Or because I'm brainwashed
'Cause I hear it every five minutes!
I sing along to dog food commercials too,
I don't see the difference, do you?
A dog can lip-sync too
The Mainstream, can you say bore?
Respectable, acceptable, I've heard that song before.
Standardized, homogenized, sterilized
I've heard that song before
Deoderized, commercialized, televised
I've heard that song before
Before, Before, I've heard that song before
Standardized, homogenized, sterilized
I've heard that song before"
I knew there was a reason why I never listen to the radio anymore
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
[ edited by classicrock000 on May 9, 2005 12:35 PM ]
[ edited by classicrock000 on May 9, 2005 12:36 PM ]
posted on May 9, 2005 12:58:18 PM
Classic - if that is the reason it's a bad one - the song is about 15 years old
Mags - Gotta agree with you on Depp - he is a rather Yum creature not to mention smart, articulate, and sarcatically funny. I think that's why I like Benicio Del Toro. He's one of those people that you think This would be an interesting person to sit next to on a plane. That's my test for people. If I am stuck on a four hour flight with you, at the end am I going to want to run for the gate or are we still going to be chatting as we enter the terminal.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on May 9, 2005 01:48:55 PM
"That's my test for people. If I am stuck on a four hour flight with you, at the end am I going to want to run for the gate or are we still going to be chatting as we enter the terminal."
This is my test for crow.If I am stuck on a four hour flight with her,at the end am I going to hang her or myself??
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
posted on May 9, 2005 01:57:25 PM
I can sure understand that situation, classic [wanting to get out of NY]. We couldn't wait to leave San Jose and CA in general and get to some wide open spaces.
lol at the headache....I hadn't taken it as hanging her by her neck but rather.....oh...never mind.
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Hi NearTheSea - I hope things are going well for you. And yes, I believe ol' Mel is a conservative....but I don't judge my 'eye candy' by their political party . Since it's all fantasy for me, doesn't really matter what political party they belong to....I'm the one that has control over my 'dreams'.
posted on May 9, 2005 02:10:03 PM
I once lived in Binghamton, Classic, hated it..
I think linda likes you Classy, she's winking at you a bunch in that last post! LOL
[ edited by maggiemuggins on May 9, 2005 02:14 PM ]
posted on May 9, 2005 05:57:23 PM
How could you not like classic and some witty remarks he comes up with. Brings a little chuckle to this board in anotherwise hostle mood.
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posted on May 9, 2005 06:03:46 PM
Libra you ARE on drugs....show me ONE witty thing classic has ever said aside from the priceless post where he wants to hang his wife!
Sheesh! I bet you liked yellow's posts, too???
And it's spelled hostile
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
posted on May 9, 2005 08:16:47 PM
I see your in your english mood again. And even if you think classic's one liners aren't witty many do. Of course they probably go way over your head. No comprehension in your brain. The way you post most think your brain is fried..
posted on May 9, 2005 08:59:31 PM
Seems as if Airann really made quite an impression in her debut:
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Judging from today's horrific debut of the humongously pre-hyped celebrity blog the Huffington Post, the Madonna of the mediapolitic world has gone one reinvention too many. She has now made an online ass of herself. What Arianna Huffington's bizarre guru-cult association, 180-degree conservative-to-liberal conversion, and failed run in the California gubernatorial-recall race couldn't accomplish, her blog has now done: She is finally played out publicly. This Web-site venture is the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable, because of all the advance publicity touting its success as inevitable. Her blog is such a bomb that it's the box-office equivalent of Gigli, Ishtar and Heaven's Gate rolled into one. In magazine terms, it's the disastrous clone of Tina Brown's Talk, JFK Jr.'s George or Maer Roshan's Radar. No matter what happens to Huffington, it's clear Hollywood will suffer the consequences.
It almost seems like some sick hoax. Perhaps Huffington is no longer a card-carrying progressive but now a conservative mole. Because she served up liberal celebs like red meat on a silver platter for the salivating and Hollywood-hating right wing to chew up and spit out.
Of course, only the fawning mainstream media didn't see this coming; instead, The New York Times, the New York Observer, the Los Angeles Times et al. were too busy breathlessly reporting Arianna's big plans and bons mots to bother to do any reporting. (The L.A. Times' praising of her preening is understandable, since the parent company's Tribune Media Services stupidly signed on to syndicate the blog's star blather.)
In fact, there's a juicy behind-the-scenes story: The L.A. Weekly has learned that the blog's start-up was god-awfully conceived from the get-go. That Hollywood biggies gave her concept the cold shoulder. That Huffington tried to use smoke and mirrors to fund her venture. That she never told her house celebs that she was putting in charge of her Hollywood blog the one bloggist best known nationally for hating everything and everyone Hollywood: former Drudge Report aide-de-camp Andrew Breitbart, author of the salacious anti-show-biz book Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity. One of her Hollywood friends told me that "Arianna said merely she had somebody from this world of blogging to help her. She felt very secure someone they brought in knew what they were doing. People would have gone crazy here if they'd known it was the guy who wrote that awful book."
Misstep after misstep. And nary a Big Media heavyweight like Tom Freston, Barry Diller or David Geffen in sight. The latter's supposed involvement especially intrigued Matt Drudge, who asked the L.A. Weekly, "Am I going to have to cancel my subscriptions to the trades? Is Geffen going to announce DreamWorks news on her blog?" I can report that, despite the blog's pre-launch hype that he would be a charter member, Geffen never had any intention of blogging on Arianna's site. Moreover, sources tell me that Geffen's people had to quietly tell Huffington to stop using his name as bait in her less-than-successful effort to fund the blog with Hollywood money.
posted on May 10, 2005 05:28:11 AM
What's the problem crowfarm ashamed of what you post? Then don't do it. I see you and maggie post than erase them. Afraid vendio will give you another vacation. Don't worry even if you erase yours Vendio's is probably still there.
posted on May 10, 2005 06:30:48 AMDon't worry even if you erase yours Vendio's is probably still there.
And maybe kiara will explain to maggie and crow how EVERYONE who clicks on the email notification button will ALSO have the original, un-edited posts from any thread.
posted on May 10, 2005 06:55:21 AMAnd maybe kiara will explain to maggie and crow how EVERYONE who clicks on the email notification button will ALSO have the original, un-edited posts from any thread.
As much as you'd like to stir up some more trouble, Linda_K I will repeat what I said yesterday. I am not afraid of anything I have said here, I did not edit any remarks I made on this board to change what I originally said and have no intention of doing so.
So you can shove your little "SCARE" threats right along with the "SPOIL YOUR FUN" ones.
posted on May 10, 2005 08:12:35 AMAND SINCE YOU "ONCE AGAIN" BROUGHT MY NAME INTO YOUR POST LINDA..
I WILL RESPOND BY SAYING IN BIG BOLD LETTERS, THAT I HOPE VENDIO READS, YOU ARE CONSTANTLY TRYING TO START AN ARGUMENT AND, LIKE KIARA, AND HELEN HAVE SAID ALWAYS STIRRING.
THE VENDIO MONITORS ARE NOT UNAWARE OF THE WAY YOU POST HERE TOO LINDA, OR YOU WOULDN'T HAVE RECEIVED THE BOOT UP YOUR REAR,SO PLEASE ENOUGH WITH THE CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE..YOUR BIG FANNY'S GOT A BOOT TREAD ON IT TOO!
YOU BERATE OTHERS FOR WHAT YOU DO ALL OF THE TIME.
YES, I KNOW YOU DON'T RESPECT ME..OR KIARA,...OR HELEN..OR..CROW.. AND THE REST ON YOUR LIST,AND THAT MAKES US VERY SAD,LOL,BUT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT THE FEELING IS MUTUAL..
SO DO US A FAVOR AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE, WHY DON'T YOU?,WHERE YOU DO RESPECT PEOPLE AND ACT ACCORDINGLY, WHO KNOWS YOU MAY FIND MORE THAN 3 PEOPLE ON ANOTHER BOARD THAT WILL LIKE YOU TOO!
posted on May 10, 2005 08:18:02 AMAnd maybe kiara will explain to maggie and crow how EVERYONE who clicks on the email notification button will ALSO have the original, un-edited posts from any thread..
Why is that such a threatenting statement to you all???? Could it be because its true?
Sorry Linda, but when you've got to have the 'edge up' does it matter if your mailbox is full of dumb messages anyway?
but rather.....oh...never mind. 